"... I would consider compassion to be a motivation, not an emotion. I can act out of compassion without becoming emotionally invested- I simply seek to aid those in need because it is what I know must be done, though I may never see the person I aid again.

And the objective- by the teaching of the modern order- is not to repress emotion, but to learn to process it without allowing it to control you. Much as you said."

[He is no longer as insistent, however- it is a role he has not taken with any single individual in many years, but not one he fears or is ashamed of. He is a student again, seeking to understand.]